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ass- JOHN M. GITCHE'LL, OF HAVERHlLL, ASSIGNOR TO J. F. MORSE,

NORTH HAVERHILL,

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 83,151, dated October 20, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLAN'IERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part. of thesame.

' hill, in the county of Grafton, and Stateof New Hampshire, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Oorn or Seed-Planters; and dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecification, and

represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a topview; Figure 2 a bottom view, and v Figure 3 a longitudinal section of aplanter, as pro-'- Vided with my invention.

This planter, like many others in use, has not only a hopper, A, toreceive the seed, but a furrow-opener, B, and two coverers, O 0, theybeing arranged in a frame, D, in manner as represented. Such frame isprovided with two handles, E E.

The bottom of the hopper is a slide-plate, E, which has an opening, a,leading down through it. This opening is supplied with an adjustable g.uge-plate, b, which is provided with a screw, 0, by which it may bemoved, so as to close A brush, (1, is also arranged in the front of thelower part of the hopper. In order that access may be easily had to thescrew, it is arranged outside of the hopper,

as shown in fig. 3.

There is pivoted to the hopper a vibratory flame, G, which supports theshaft 0 of a wheel or roller, H, arranged just in rear of the covcrers.A gang of pulleys, f g h, on the shaft of the said roller or wheel,disposed with respect to another gang, t 7t 1, in manner as, shown inthe drawings, is to impart rotary motion to the latter, by means of anendless band or chain working around one pulley of each of the twogangs.

the said opening more or less.

The gang t It t isfixcd on a shaft, m, which has a bell crank n at itsmiddle and extends across and is iva a 7 p oted in the frame G. A pitmanor connecting-rod, 0, is jointed to the said bell-crank and to the rearend of the slide-plate F. Consequently, while the machine may be-draggedalong by a draught-animal, harnessed to the nose-piece 1) oflits name,the slider trill-have reciprocating rectilinear motions imparted to itthrough the action of the wheel'I-I, the endless belt or chain, thepulleys, (on which the belt or chain may be working,) the cranked shaft,and pitman or connecting-rod,

as. described.

The wheel 1-1 will not only perform the functions of rollingulown theearth which the covercrs may have replaced, the furrow, butwill aid inproducing the movements of the slide-plate necessary to effect the(hopping of the seed from the hopper.

By means of the vertically-vibrating frame. G, supporting the crank andwheel-shafts, the wheel is enabled to bear on and accommodate itself tothe surface of the ground, the pitman rising and falling with the frame.

I therefore claim, for effecting the reciprocating movements of theslider 1 by means of the wheel or roller H, the combination of thevibratory frame G, the pulleys, the cranked shaft, and the pitman,arranged with the slider, the wheel-shaft, and the hopper, in manner,and to operate with an endless band or chain, substantially asspecified. I

. JOHN M. GITGHELL.

' Witnesses:

N. W. WESTGATE, CHAS. B. Gnrswonn.

